The Gulf disaster from spill to trial

March 30, 2015

Tech. Sgt. Adrian Cadiz/AP

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On April 15, 2014 -- nearly four years after the Gulf oil spill -- BP declares an end to cleanup operations that cost the company $14 billion and once covered 778 miles of shoreline on the Gulf Coast. The Coast Guard had finished its last patrols of the three remaining miles of beach that had been soaked in oil after a blowout at BP’s Macondo well blew out.
[Photo: In May 2010, ships move an oil boom into place near Cat Island off the Gulf Coast of Mississippi as part of Deepwater Horizon oil spill response.]

Tech. Sgt. Adrian Cadiz/AP

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On April 15, 2014 -- nearly four years after the Gulf oil spill -- BP declares an end to cleanup operations that cost the company $14 billion and once covered 778 miles of shoreline on the Gulf Coast. The Coast Guard had finished its last patrols of the three remaining miles of beach that had been soaked in oil after a blowout at BP’s Macondo well blew out.
[Photo: In May 2010, ships move an oil boom into place near Cat Island off the Gulf Coast of Mississippi as part of Deepwater Horizon oil spill response.]